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Provinces of the Dominican Republic map. The Dominican Republic is divided into thirty-one provincias (provinces; singular provincia), while the national capital, Santo Domingo, is contained within its own Distrito Nacional ("National District"; "D.N." on the map below).
Santo Domingo Este was created as a separate municipality in 2001 by Law 163-01, which split the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional. [4]Plans for local government separate from the National District were first floated in the 1970s.
It was founded by Enrique Bejo (), the Taino chief of Jaragua and hero of Bahoruco, after 14 years of struggle.[clarification needed] Having managed to force the authorities of Santo Domingo to sign a peace treaty, he decided to retire to Boyá in 1533, where he later died.
In the years 1949 to 1955 a US military base was installed, which had a weather station. In 1963, the bridge over the Yabón River was built, which allowed permanent transit between Hayo Mayor del Rey and Sabana de la Mar. On December 3, 1984, it was transferred to the Province of Hato Mayor when said province was created.
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
In 1533 Cotuí acquired the category of a town, then it began to be known as La Villa Mejorada del Cotuí. Cotui's gold mine was already in production and had become the richest in the New World . In the third decade of the 16th century, the Cotuí gold mine was exploited by a German company of miners, who established an important mining camp ...
The town of Sosúa was officially founded by Jewish refugees (see Dominican Jews) fleeing from Nazi Germany.At the 1938 Evian Conference, Rafael Trujillo offered to accept up to 100,000 Jewish refugees; about 800 German and Austrian Jewish refugees received visas issued by the Dominican government between 1940 and 1945 and settled in Sosúa.
Dajabón is a municipality and capital of the Dajabón province in the Dominican Republic, which is located on the northwestern Dominican Republic frontier with Haiti.It is a market town with a population of about 26,000, north of the Cordillera Central mountain range.